Word 2010: Adding Dictionary For Common Words

Like it’s antecedents, Word 2010 also include very powerful dictionary to point-out misspell words, and reckoning you to choose alternatives, etc. But one major downside of this feature, that it always points-out when you have written names and special terminologies in the document, which is very distracting sometimes, though you can add them in default Word dictionary, but it would be more useful if you can make your own dictionary which contains special terms, phrases, idioms, and names that you mostly use while writing. Word 2010 also provides you an option of adding another dictionary to add whatever you want to. This post will let you know how you can add one.

When we have got to write some names in the Word document, immediately Spell Check highlighted it, and suggest us to go for alternative words or to add it in the dictionary. This could be very mind-numbing to manually add the words in to the default dictionary. To get over this problem we will be creating another dictionary, which will contain only names that we use most frequently.

Launch Word 2010, on File menu, click Options.

Word Options dialog will appear, now from left pane, select Proofing, and from right side, click Custom Dictionaries.

It will bring up Custom Dictionaries dialog, Click New to add new dictionary for names.

Now give it an appropriate name, and click Save.

The newly created dictionary will be added, now we need to populate it by inserting names. For this, we will click Edit Word List.

Start adding desired words in to newly created dictionary. Once added, click Ok, to continue. you will reach Custom Dictionaries dialog, now click OK, and close the Word Options to return to the document.

Now you will not see the Spell Check, or AutoCorrect suggestions for such words.

You can also check out previously reviewed guides on Utility of Building Block Organizer in Word 2010 & How to use Speech Recognition in Word 2010.